Joe Kent
@joekent16jan19
Father of two amazing boys, husband. Retired Green Beret combat veteran, Gold Star husband. Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
Joined October 2019
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The U.S. Intelligence Community assessed this & consistently briefed it. Unfortunately, it was the Israeli government & their lobbyists who convinced the President that Iran would be as easy as Venezuela.
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We’re now hearing that the U.S. neither expected Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz nor anticipated Iranian attacks on the Gulf states. Seriously? Was this a failure of intelligence, a misreading of deterrence, or simply strategic naivety?
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